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If you look in the folder /usr/share/applications you will see a series of .desktop files. You should hopefully see something that you would recognise in terms of the application name.

In this case - the desktop file is ubuntu-software-center.desktop

Have a quick look inside the file (it is a text file) and you will see a line that starts Exec= - that command line is where your application is located.

In this case - /usr/bin/software-center

An alternative is to use the following technique:

type which followed by the first few characters of the software you are attempting to locate - e.g. soft. Then press Tab. Hopefully you'll see the name of the application you are attempting to run. Pressing return after which software-center will give the same value as the Exec= statement above.